Ching-chai
Gmelina philippensis
Also known as Hedgehog, Parrot's Beak
Shrub
About Ching-chai
Gmelina philippensis is a plant species in the family Lamiaceae (but was previously placed in the Verbenaceae). No subspecies are listed in the Catalogue of Life.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Gmelina philippensis
- Genus
- Gmelina
- Family
- VERBENACEAE
- Habit
- Shrub
- Habitat
- Grown as garden plant, also runs wild Key identification features : Straggling armed shrub, leaves opposite, elliptic, with glands in the axil. Glands brown and hairy. Flowers in terminal spikes, showy. Bracts foliar. Corolla tubular, limb funnel shaped, with unequal lobes. Filaments curved. Fruit a fleshy, oblong drupe
- Native to
- Southeast Asia
- Distribution
- Introduced
- Flowering & fruiting
- January-June
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Local Names
- Hindi
- बधारा Badhara
- Bengali
- বধারা Badhara
- Malayalam
- ജിമെലീന ഫിലിപ്പെൻസിസ്
Botanical family
Verbenaceae
Verbena/Teak family
Ching-chai belongs to the Verbenaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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